Back in Rome the sun rose at 5:32 and it will set at 10:47. The Ave Maria Bell doesn’t ring for the Curia at 21:00.
However, here in Brooklyn, the sun came up at 5:24 and it will set at 20:26. The Ave Maria will ring on my app at 20:56 (30 minutes after sunset).
Today is the 160th day of the civic calendar year and the Feast not only of St. Ephrem but also the incorrupt Anna Maria Taigi.
We went to a steak place last night for supper.
Which drink is mine?
Gotta have some oysters, right?
We shared a porthouse, which was quite good. However, there was a hint of burnt garlic. Stupid cook.
I wound up saving my salad for dessert.
Today I am taking it very easy and catching up on email, which has stacked up to the ceiling. I suppose we will go out tonight for a burger or some chinese. Either way, it’ll be great.
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Now, I should get back to my article prep.
Meanwhile, white to move and mate in 4.
NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.
UPDATE: I hear a Robin singing away. How I miss the birds of the north.
Speaking of catching up, there’s a new Tolkien to catch up on – “J. R. R. Tolkien’s Soul’s Ward: A critical edition of his unpublished translation of the early Middle English homily Sawles Warde” – described by the editors, Andoni Cossio and Nelson Goering, as a “Middle English prose homily from the early thirteenth century. It is a fairly free rendering of a Latin work, De custodia interioris hominis, translated and adapted for an audience of anchorites and cloistered nuns. It is an allegory in which the body—stronghold of the immortal soul and under the attack of vices governed by the Devil—is represented as a house.” Now available in The Review of English Studies.
Amongst the many and varied facts I’ve learnt from this blog is that burnt paprika can really wreck the taste of a dish… alas, I already knew about burnt garlic through bitter experience! As for the drinks, the therapeutically-sized Martini with a twist would be my guess… in fact you bought me one the last time our paths crossed (NYC 2009 – with Bishop Rifan – I believe you posted about the events at the time (but not the martinis!)
Porterhouse, so named for an inn in my childhood home neighborhood, Porter Square. Long ago the area north of Harvard was a cattle yard.
The rocks glass.
Speaking of birds, I remember when you used to post about the birds in your yard. It got me interested in birds and I have put up bird feeders in my own yard every winter.
1. Rxf7+ Kh8 or … RxR or …. Kg8 or … Kh6
2. Rh7+ KxR or … Kg8 Qxg6+ Kh8 Qxg6+ Kh8 Qxg6#
3. Qxg6+ Kh8 Qxg6# Qg8# Qg7#
4. Qg7#
Dumb question, but I thought oysters could be consumed safely only in months with a “r” in their name? Maybe more sanitary conditions in the beds?